There seems to be considerable dismay and hand wringing in the conservative populist camp over the fact that their younger male audience, predominantly, identifies with the edgy pol 4chan culture.
They keep trying to label it as Nick Funtes. Nick said this, Nick said that, Nick made them racist and nazis or whatever. If we get rid of Nickkk there will be no nazis and everybody on the right will be a good populist neocon or whatever for Israel and the problem will be settled.
Thing about it is, this guy did not invent the concepts he is spreading. He didn't invent the social forces pushing people towards nationalism or the userbases. The Aut right was already hot shit before he even came around. At best, funtes was a particularly articulate advocate who gained fame for simply being able to argue publicly things people in that sphere already believe anyways.
I mean, Race realism, white idpol, the constant skepticism about zios pretty or not, the longing for the structural glories of nationalism best exemplified in the third reich to many younger people. That was already big. People might have learned the arguments on pol but they already were gravitating in that direction. You could have gotten rid of the neetsoc people effectively and still the fashwave era probably would have hit anyways.
Personally, I remember being 16 years old and thinking about how cool the people in the so-called far right seemed. I didn't even know what it was even about at the time, it just happened to best exemplify in the abstract how I thought society should be ordered. Many of the people who are getting roped into the satanic acceleration homegrown op busts are themselves just 16, 17 year old teenagers. The book anon character who was like the world's foremost neetsoc scholar on the chans was only a young person as well, or the zoomer historian guy for instance.
So these people already existed. And in the lack of the right to authentic political representation, the government has started branding people who would be their own national defenders as criminals and the like. Cutting down their own patriotic generation because of the nazi scare for the sake of international interests who want globalism and the zionist lobby. That's pretty gross